History Main / SwordandSandal

* ''Literature/MarcusDidiusFalco'' -- A series of novels centering on a PrivateDetective during the reign of Vespasian.

* ''Literature/RomaSubRosa'' -- ''Another'' PrivateDetective series, this time set in the late republic.

* ''Film/BenHur1907''
* ''Film/BenHur1925''
* ''Film/BenHur1959''
* ''Film/BenHur2016''

** ''Atlas in the Land of the Cyclops'': Despite the MarketBasedTitle, both the original Italian release and its English dub are about Maciste, and there is no character named Atlas. Our hero gets roped into protecting the last descendant of Odysseus from the Cyclops, who is still mad about what happened in ''Literature/TheOdyssey''.

* ''Samson and His Mighty Challenge'' (a 1965 Italian film also starring Hercules, but Samson's in there too). Later {{Gag Dub}}bed as ''Film/HerculesReturns''.

* ''Theatre/{{Coriolanus}}
* Theatre/{{Cymbeline}}

* ''VideoGame/GladiatorSwordOfVengeance''
* ''VideoGame/GladiatorBegins''

* ''Film/GoliathAndTheDragon'': Despite the MarketBasedTitle, this movie (known in its native Italy as ''La Vendetta di Ercole'', or ''The Revenge of Hercules'') is actually about Hercules, although even in the dub, he's not supposed to be the same Goliath as in the Bible, but a guy named Emilius that everybody ''calls'' Goliath because he's so big. The change was made so that it could be [[DolledUpInstallment marketed as a sequel]] to the earlier ''Film/GoliathAndTheBarbarians'', but it probably would have been easier to leave him as Hercules.

** ''Medusa Against the Son of Hercules'' (''Perseus the Invincible''. Mostly notable for its above-average creature effects by Creator/CarloRambaldi, who would go on to work on ''Film/{{Alien}}'' and ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial''.)

** ''Film/ColossusAndTheHeadhunters'' - Another Maciste movie, and another ''Series/MST3K'' entry.

Contrast SwordAndSorcery, on which the name is based (or vice versa). Strictly speaking, the two genres are distinguished by SwordAndSorcery having explicitly fantastic settings, typically a pseudo-Medieval European style ConstructedWorld. Conversely, Sword And Sandal at least pretends to depict real-world historical settings, usually being set during classical antiquity in the Mediterranean regions. There is often some overlap though (as seen in the more ''[[Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982 Conan]]''-inspired sword and sandal films of the '80s), especially when mythology gets involved, but it is usually existing mythology based directly on Hellenic tradition.

The subgenre of low-budget Sword And Sandal Italian films of the [[TheFifties late '50s]] and [[TheSixties early '60s]] is known as ''Peplum''. [[note]]The name comes from the ''peplos'', an Ancient Greek garment, a little like a toga, that became a mainstay of these movies' wardrobes.[[/note]] These films in particular tend to have the WorldsStrongestMan as the hero (often Hercules, but not necessarily). Much like the {{spaghetti western}}s that followed them, pepla tend to star non-Italian, Anglophonic leading actors ([[NonActorVehicle if they're actors at all]]) alongside an Italian supporting cast. If an Anglophonic lead could not be secured and they had to cast a fellow Italian, he'd take on an English pseudonym - Sergio Ciani, for example, became Alan Steel. These movies also tended to get [[MarketBasedTitle wildly different titles]] when released outside their home country, to the point where [[DolledUpInstallment entire franchises could be fashioned out of what were originally stand-alone movies]]. The term "peplum" can also refer to a second wave of Italian fantasy films that came out in the 1980s, though not all of these were SwordAndSandal movies, instead being SwordAndSorcery films [[FollowTheLeader overtly modeled]] on ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982''. Sandals or not, the '80s pepla tended to be [[DarkerAndEdgier grimmer]], [[BloodierAndGorier more violent]], and [[HotterAndSexier sleazier]] than their relatively family-friendly forebears.

The subgenre of low-budget Sword And Sandal Italian films of the late '50s and early '60s is known as ''Peplum''. [[note]]The name comes from the ''peplos'', an Ancient Greek garment, a little like a toga, that became a mainstay of these movies' wardrobes.[[/note]] These films in particular tend to have the WorldsStrongestMan as the hero (often Hercules, but not necessarily). Much like the {{spaghetti western}}s that followed them, pepla tend to star non-Italian, Anglophonic leading actors ([[NonActorVehicle if they're actors at all]]) alongside an Italian supporting cast. If an Anglophonic lead could not be secured and they had to cast a fellow Italian, he'd take on an English pseudonym - Sergio Ciani, for example, became Alan Steel. These movies also tended to get [[MarketBasedTitle wildly different titles]] when released outside their home country, to the point where [[DolledUpInstallment entire franchises could be fashioned out of what were originally stand-alone movies]]. The term "peplum" can also refer to a second wave of Italian fantasy films that came out in the 1980s, though not all of these were SwordAndSandal movies, instead being SwordAndSorcery films [[FollowTheLeader overtly modeled]] on ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982''. Sandals or not, the '80s pepla tended to be [[DarkerAndEdgier grimmer]], [[BloodierAndGorier more violent]], and [[HotterAndSexier sleazier]] than their relatively family-friendly forebears.

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* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' with the [[ShowWithinAShow fictional movie]] ''The Voyages of Loinclothiclese'', which seems to be mostly modeled on ''Film/JasonAndTheArgonauts'' with a little bit of ''Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad'' thrown in for good measure.

* ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans1981''
* ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans2010''

* ''Film/JasonAndTheArgonauts''

* ''Film/SinbadAndTheEyeOfTheTiger'' - mainly an ArabianNightsDays movie, but has elements of this genre, with Sinbad traveling to Greece to recruit the alchemist Melanthius for his journey. The movie takes a lot of its fantasy elements from Greek myths as well, most specifically the concept of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperborea Hyperborea]].

* ''ComicBook/{{Alix}}''
* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' -- Although it's mostly AffectionateParody of the genre.

* ''Literature/BenHur'' -- Includes all the adaptations. Also counts as a Biblical Epic.